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PIERRE -- A minimum length limit for walleye, sauger and saugeye has been
proposed to begin in the year 2000 for Lewis and Clark Lake and upstream to
where the Missouri River leaves the South Dakota/Nebraska border, according
to S.D. Game, Fish and Parks fisheries officials.
Fisheries Administrator Dennis Unkenholz said the addition of the
15-inch minimum length limit for walleye, sauger and saugeye on the river
and Lewis and Clark Lake is a new regulation, as that lake has never been
included with the other Missouri River reservoir size-limit regulations.
Implementing the regulation for Lewis and Clark Lake was necessary
to protect large walleye, to improve the average size of walleye harvested
and more equally distribute the harvest of large walleye among more anglers,
Unkenholz added.
The 15-inch minimum length restriction will be in effect year-round.
Uploaded: 9/22/1999
Uploaded: 9/22/1999